NOTE: there's a slight art/colouring error on the penultimate screen-page. The fellow on the right of panel, under the hood, is supposed to have a Crossed marking on his face. We'll get that corrected asap, and certainly for the tpb.

Remember: Not safe for work, not safe for minors, not safe for people of a nervous disposition, not safe for delahaye, not safe for the Radio Times, not safe for the HPDC.

HOODUNKORLDIT?]]>
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Whoa! Well know we know...
can't help but thinking it's not going to go well for Tabitha back on the ship; babies don't do well there, and I've a feeling the Yanks' raid isn't going to go well, ...
can't help but thinking it's not going to go well for Tabitha back on the ship; babies don't do well there, and I've a feeling the Yanks' raid isn't going to go well, leaving the ships unprotected.]]>
CROSSED: WISH YOU WERE HERE -- Episode 6 (Season 3 Ep 20)http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=11186&Focus=359641#Comment_3596412013-10-31T08:33:59-05:002015-03-31T13:10:03-05:00Slicknickhttp://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=10973
one of those faces was not crossed. hmmmmm. but the debate of trash bag can finally be put to rest. Now we just need to know how he ended up that way. possibly he turns crossed then sees the nun, and ...
By the way what the fuck happened to Dead or alive?

SI as a long time lurker you have kept me in the open recently. good on you]]>
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ah I see the face is supposed to be crossed.
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oh, now she's pissed off. Now she's really pissed off.
I suppose boxing gloves' identity makes sense in a way, although I thought ashoke had a much smaller build.She did seem to care for him as if ...
I suppose boxing gloves' identity makes sense in a way, although I thought ashoke had a much smaller build.She did seem to care for him as if he were a child of sorts (kissing him in the forehead when he brings the letter, seline and the dentist, and then removing the boxing gloves so he could have some fun). Anyways, I'm going to guess that the crossed got him, or he got himself infected by accident (perhaps the needles he found at the church?) after Shaky abandoned him. As he had been brain damaged before turning, he remains kind of "special" even after being crossed, so other crossed he comes around follow his lead. Then whatever happens, Teresa and Shaky split, and when she and Ashoke meet again, hell if I can try to guess the next part of their story. I mean, we don't even know if she is crossed or plain crazy.

Also, when Jackson is afraid of the crossed, you know things can't go well]]>
CROSSED: WISH YOU WERE HERE -- Episode 6 (Season 3 Ep 20)http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=11186&Focus=359647#Comment_3596472013-10-31T10:06:32-05:002015-03-31T13:10:03-05:00ddaviehttp://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=10855
well THAT was a surprise!
CROSSED: WISH YOU WERE HERE -- Episode 6 (Season 3 Ep 20)http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=11186&Focus=359648#Comment_3596482013-10-31T10:11:34-05:002015-03-31T13:10:03-05:00Michael Waynehttp://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=7739
My reading is that Shaky is overcome with desperate longing and pants-shitting terror in equal measure.
...kind of like the rest of us...!
Quite a transformation for the boxer. Brain damage ...
...kind of like the rest of us...!

Quite a transformation for the boxer. Brain damage made the daft boy weaker as a human, but as a Crossed it almost made him... better? A better monster?

Weird that Shaky seems to almost want Jackson's approval at this point, if even for his "snakiness"--too funny!

At the end of the day Shaky is still a writer, and that's why he makes the diary. A writer without an audience. A writer without recognition, in a world that left writing behind...]]>
CROSSED: WISH YOU WERE HERE -- Episode 6 (Season 3 Ep 20)http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=11186&Focus=359649#Comment_3596492013-10-31T10:21:53-05:002015-03-31T13:10:03-05:00twentythoughtshttp://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=7347
Well, now... We finally get a nice comparison shot of post-Crossed-leader-nun and pre-Crossed-leaded-nun. Those scars are definitely infected. Or, if I'm to be excessively storytelling-paranoid, ...
Damn. Good. Chapter.]]>
CROSSED: WISH YOU WERE HERE -- Episode 6 (Season 3 Ep 20)http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=11186&Focus=359654#Comment_3596542013-10-31T11:28:27-05:002015-03-31T13:10:03-05:00Clarkthehomunculushttp://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=4700
Wow! I never saw that coming. I agree with longtimelurker, the brain damage seems to have improved his lot as crossed. Who'dathunkit?
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I CALLED IT! About fucking time I got a prediction right. As u recall when trash bag mummy raped the old lady in front of seline the nurse first took off his boxing glove and we saw his skin was ...
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CUDDLES!
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Reasons why Jackson didn't take a 2nd shot?
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Holy sh1t balls that's brilliant!!!
Kind of suspected the ID of the garbage guy. Whilst I can see the crossed who should be "painted" I noticed someone who I thought was crossed who ...
Kind of suspected the ID of the garbage guy. Whilst I can see the crossed who should be "painted" I noticed someone who I thought was crossed who doesn't actually seem to be crossed!?So the intrigue continues!!!?I look forward to this every week more than anything!! Ace work Si!!!]]>
CROSSED: WISH YOU WERE HERE -- Episode 6 (Season 3 Ep 20)http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=11186&Focus=359690#Comment_3596902013-11-01T09:32:24-05:002015-03-31T13:10:03-05:00Michael Waynehttp://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=7739
"Reasons why Jackson didn't take a second shot?"
Shaky's questioning "can you get her?" implies the Crossed are probably almost out of range. Jackson's very, very good, as ...
Shaky's questioning "can you get her?" implies the Crossed are probably almost out of range. Jackson's very, very good, as proven with his use of the knife last episode. But at long range, even he loses accuracy, and the nun is huddled behind her "sacrifial lamb."]]>
CROSSED: WISH YOU WERE HERE -- Episode 6 (Season 3 Ep 20)http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=11186&Focus=359702#Comment_3597022013-11-01T14:15:39-05:002015-03-31T13:10:03-05:00twentythoughtshttp://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=7347
Not to mention, shooting from a moving boat at a distance while standing? Freaking hard. And this is not a world where ammo is particularly easy to come by.
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@twenty
"I could do it, hold my beer....."
Said some of my gun-loving friends in Louisiana.
"I could do it, hold my beer....."

Said some of my gun-loving friends in Louisiana.]]>
CROSSED: WISH YOU WERE HERE -- Episode 6 (Season 3 Ep 20)http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=11186&Focus=359710#Comment_3597102013-11-01T17:32:52-05:002015-03-31T13:10:03-05:00Shanhttp://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=10965
Nothing about the situation was good as it was but this latest shooting seems likely to make things so much worse.
Methinks Shaky's day of reckoning is coming fast. Do you think it's possible he ...
Methinks Shaky's day of reckoning is coming fast. Do you think it's possible he ends up being the new Man in Black in the end?]]>
CROSSED: WISH YOU WERE HERE -- Episode 6 (Season 3 Ep 20)http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=11186&Focus=359711#Comment_3597112013-11-01T17:40:06-05:002015-03-31T13:10:03-05:00Michael Waynehttp://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=7739
And the last shot is the welder's visor slowly going over his face? Creepy!
I still think the ending was telegraphed by the promotional image: he's alone on his perch with no escape from the ...
I still think the ending was telegraphed by the promotional image: he's alone on his perch with no escape from the Crossed, and everyone else is gone....]]>
CROSSED: WISH YOU WERE HERE -- Episode 6 (Season 3 Ep 20)http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=11186&Focus=359754#Comment_3597542013-11-03T15:18:40-06:002015-03-31T13:10:03-05:00Babu Dhakalhttp://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=11060
"Methinks Shaky's day of reckoning is coming fast. Do you think it's possible he ends up being the new Man in Black in the end?"
For a second there I thought you meant Shaky becoming the ...
For a second there I thought you meant Shaky becoming the Crossed-verse's version of Randall Flagg/Walter O'Dim/Marten Broadclock before I saw what you meant. My thoughts are too much tied to the Dark Tower, LOL.

After lurking here for an eternity I finally decided to sign up. WYWH and the Australia special are my favorite parts of the Crossed franchise apart from Garth Ennis' works. The stories in both flow very fluidly and everything, including the characters' mistakes, is believable. I remember some time ago when the true events at Fort George were revealed that some people complained about the way it fell. I didn't see it like that: the Black Watch took an enormous amount of precautions and they sensibly put down those of their men who had been infected, and it still wasn't enough. To me it comes down as this: in the world of the Crossed, the non-Crossed have to succeed each and every time just to survive. The Crossed, OTOH, only need to succeed once. And this is before any of the other factors come in, such as infighting amongst the survivors, survivor groups fighting each other (like we saw with Addy's family and the desert raiders in Family Values and now with the Cavaites and the driftfleet), individual non-Crossed preying on others (see: Harold Lorre, Amanda) and starvation, disease etc.

As for Aoileann's intentions toward Shaky, I think she might have sought to recreate the situation she had with Shaky and Ashoke before Shaky abandoned the latter. Consider that up until that point they were pretty much acting as the parents to Ashoke's "toddler". And we've seen that as a Crossed, she seems to have had a perverted maternal instinct toward Ashoke in his "Trashbag Mummy" guise. So it makes sense that Aoileann would have also sought to recreate her relationship with Shaky as well, only as Crossed.

Of course, now with Ashoke dead, it looks like all that is out the window, and Jackson may have unwittingly opened a can of cosmic whoopass on the Cavaites. And I don't feel so comfortable about the upcoming driftfleet raid, either...

In any case, however it ends, I'm sure we'll all be in for quite a ride! shudder]]>
CROSSED: WISH YOU WERE HERE -- Episode 6 (Season 3 Ep 20)http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=11186&Focus=359876#Comment_3598762013-11-07T09:18:04-06:002015-03-31T13:10:03-05:00Horrible Warning Sihttp://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=1223
It's an INTERLUDE week, but we've still got tasty material for you.
Seriously, it's for your own good. Horrible things are coming.
It's an INTERLUDE week, but we've still got tasty material for you.

Seriously, it's for your own good. Horrible things are coming.]]>
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"Horrible things are coming."
...Shaky shares with Sister his romantic poetry?
...Shaky shares with Sister his romantic poetry?]]>
CROSSED: WISH YOU WERE HERE -- Episode 6 (Season 3 Ep 20)http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=11186&Focus=359906#Comment_3599062013-11-08T01:01:44-06:002015-03-31T13:10:03-05:00Shanhttp://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=10965
Well, if it's even half as bad as Vogon poetry ...
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Sigh...or Si. It would have been OK - I CAN HANDLE IT MAN...sob :(
(resets internal Crossed clock for next Friday)
(resets internal Crossed clock for next Friday)]]>
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"Horrible things are coming."
Hmmm...
Why do I have the feeling that Tabitha may end up being the Miki Makimura to Shaky's Akira Fudo? Especially if a vengeful Aoileann figures out ...
Hmmm...

Why do I have the feeling that Tabitha may end up being the Miki Makimura to Shaky's Akira Fudo? Especially if a vengeful Aoileann figures out the relationship between the two somehow? Except Akira was far more virtuous despite him being a bloodthirsty demon-human hybrid. Anyone who's ever read Devilman knows what the fuck I'm talking about.

Yes, I'm a Go Nagai fan as well. So sue me. ;-)

Though the poetry would be even more sadistic...

(And now there's the Japan arc in Badlands. Honestly, Nagai should be drawing it, he's been drawing Crossed-type psychos since 1973... Violence Jack, anyone?)]]>
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We've seen several human/crossed comparisons in Shaky's interlude diary entries. He's critical of the crossed, of course... but I get the feeling that he envies them from the way he writes about ...
"No, Donny, these men are nihilists. There’s nothing to be afraid of."

PS - Si, I've adopted the term "pissflaps" into my everyday vocabulary. Results have been... positive... so far.]]>
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When Tabitha dies (and I'm not going to lie to myself by using the word "if" instead of "when", this is the crossed universe after all), I will probably cry. And I'm quite ...
I always thought that all the post-apocalyptic stories had a tendence to forget to mention the fact that no one was ever spotted washing him or herself as well. And yes, shaky always seems to be envious of the crossed. Perhaps because they have no fears and he's a great coward, or because he thinks that they don't really care that much about the lives they once had and simply enjoy the hell out of the one they are having now, or both. Deep down, h'd probably like to just become Teresa's crossed lover. Le romance <3 (scarier mental image than mutilated Tabitha just now)]]>